What does NEA stand for?

Near-Earth Asteroid

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Samples in periodicals archive:

The hardware in the satellite would be able to switch from, say, an atmospheric pollution sensor to a near-Earth asteroid detector.

Electronic hardware aboard 2012 test satellite would be able to ...

Nick Kaiser, a scientist who works on the project, says the Pan-STARRS telescope has been designed to find "90 percent of all killer asteroids, near-Earth asteroids bigger than 300 meters.

New eyes to scan the skies

We are on the cutting edge, building the world's first space-based telescope designed to search for near-Earth asteroids.

India: Canada building world's first dual-use space telescope

2 A 1, 000-foot diameter Near-Earth asteroid missed the Earth by how many miles?

TIME TRAVELLER: QUIZ . .

Dr Benny Pieser said experts are discovering near-earth asteroids so fast that the chance of one hitting the Earth without warning is minute.

Asteroid threat is busted

But scientists didn't know about it until days after it passed, when NASA's new "Sentry" system, which constantly tracks 37 near-Earth asteroids, revealed it was just 40,000miles away from the moon.

Huge asteroid crept up on us

Astronomers with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) program discovered 2001 YB5 on Dec.

Asteroid big enough to raze France zips by Earth Rock comes within a ...

Dubbed as the first commercial space exploration and development company, SpaceDev sells rides for scientific instruments to governments and companies to transport their instruments and experiments through deep space to a near-Earth asteroid.

SpaceDev, Inc